Overview
On February 18, 2016, Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Program and Islamic Legal Studies Program held a workshop on the intersection of animals, religion, and constitutional law. Presentations addressed constitutional theory, institutional design, and case studies grounded in the constitutional experiences of particular jurisdictions or regions. Participants discussed topics that involve issues of religious law, such as the relevance of the halal and kosher debates to constitutional developments regarding animals (e.g., in Europe), and the religious dimensions of the constitutional protections for animals (e.g., in India).
Participants
Randall Abate (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University College of Law)
Ebrahim Afsah (University of Copenhagen) – Ritual Slaughter in the Modern Constitutional State: A Brief History of the European Discourse
Ariel L. Bendor (Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law) and Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg (Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law) – Constitutional Protections of Animals: Universal Complexities, Israeli Perspectives
David Bilchitz (University of Johannesburg) – Can the Environmental Rights in the South African Constitution Offer Protection for the Interests of Animals?
Charlotte Blattner (PhD candidate, Law Faculty of the University of Basel) – The Comparative Constitutional Law of Cows and Milk – India and the United States
Alex Bruce (ANU College of Law)
Mathilde Cohen (University of Connecticut) – The Comparative Constitutional Law of Cows and Milk – India and the United States
Erin Delaney (Northwestern University Law School) – Discussant
Jessica Eisen (SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School) – Discussant
David Fontana (George Washington University Law School) – Discussant
Pamela Frasch (Lewis & Clark Law School)
Chris Green (Harvard University)
Kathy Hessler (Lewis & Clark Law School) – Discussant
Jayna Kothari (Centre for Law & Policy Research, Bangalore) – Jurisdictional Presentation
Peter Li (University of Houston-Downtown)
Mara Malagodi (City University London) – Holy Cows, Hinduism, and Constitutional Identity in Nepal
André Nollkaemper (University of Amsterdam) – Balancing Animal Welfare and Human Rights: A Case Study of European Practice on Ritual Slaughter without Stunning
Enyinna Nwauche (Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa) – The Right to Ritual Slaughter in Africa: A Comparative Constitutional Analysis
Ido Porat (College of Law and Business) – Proportionality and the Constitutionality of Ritual Animal Slaughter and Male Circumcision
Natalie Prosin (Animals, Law, and Religion Project, Harvard University)
Yaniv Roznai (University of Haifa) – Constitutional Zoology
Shira Shmuely (PhD candidate, MIT)
Kristen Stilt (Harvard University) – Constitutional Animal Protection in Egypt and the Making of a Social Movement
Saskia Stucki (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) – Jurisdictional Presentation
Katie Sykes (Thompson Rivers University) – Jurisdictional Presentation
Mark Tushnet (Harvard University) – Discussant
Delci Winders (Harvard University)